Comment on Complex numbers have never been so intuitive to meparentComments−mreid15yI don't know how Sedenions fit into the picture but "Hurwitz's theorem":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%27s_theorem_(normed_div... may be one explanation as to why there are essentially only 1,2,4, and 8 dimensional numbers.
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I don't know how Sedenions fit into the picture but "Hurwitz's theorem":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%27s_theorem_(normed_div... may be one explanation as to why there are essentially only 1,2,4, and 8 dimensional numbers.